Time robs us of all, even of memory.
 
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Virgil - Time robs us of all, even of memory - wist.info quote

Virgil the Poet
Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
Eclogues [Eclogae, Bucolics, Pastorals], No. 9 “Lycidas and Moeris,” l. 51 (9.51) [Moeris] (42-38 BC) [tr. Fairclough (Loeb) (1916)]
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(Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:

Age all things wasts: the minde too.
[tr. Ogilby (1649)]

The rest I have forgot, for Cares and Time⁠
Change all things, and untune my Soul to Rhyme.
[tr. Dryden (1709), ll. 70-71]

Ah! age, which pilfers all, not e'en the memory spares!
[tr. Wrangham (1830), l. 60]

Age bears away all things, even the mind itself.
[tr. Davidson (1854)]

Time carries all -- our memories e'en -- away.
[tr. Calverley (c. 1871)]

Time steals everything, memory among the rest.
[tr. Wilkins (1873)]

Now memory scarce can aught recall;
The note is lost, the voice, the all.
[tr. King (1882), ll. 901-902]

Alas! Old age bears hard on everything;
On memory most.
[tr. Palmer (1883)]

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
[tr. Greenough (1895)]

Age bears away all things, even the memory itself.
[tr. Bryce (1897)]

Time runs away with all things, the mind too.
[tr. Mackail (1899)]

How time wears all things out!
Even the memory.
[tr. Mackail/Cardew (1908)]

Ah, time takes all we have, the memory too.
[tr. Williams (1915)]

Time bears away
All things, even the mind.
[tr. Royds (1922)]

Time carries everything away, even our memory.
[tr. Rieu (1949)]

Age robs us of all things,
Even the mind.
[tr. Johnson (1960)]

Time bears all away, even memory.
[tr. Day Lewis (1963)]

Time takes all we have away from us.
[tr. Ferry (1999)]

Time takes away all things, memory too.
[tr. Kline (2001)]


 
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